Unicode 17.0 introduces five new CJK Unified Ideographs related to Chinese personal pronouns, four of them having been proposed by Andrew West (BabelStone):
« The other Chinese pronoun coming to Unicode v. 17.0 next year, in addition to ⿰㐅也 (3p gender-neutral, ⿰男也 (3p explicitly male), ⿱妳心 ( f. equivalent of 您), ⿱我心 (Taiwanese 1p plural), is ⿱她心 (f. equivalent to 怹) »
🔗 https://bsky.app/profile/babelstone.co.uk/post/3lbrxowqt7k24
The latest version of the open-source application "Unicopedia Sinica" is now available, adding support for all the new CJK/Unihan characters defined in Unicode 17.0.
New in Unicopedia Ægypta:
- Added all Unikemet-related utilities from Unicopedia Plus.
New in Unicopedia Sinica:
- Added all Unihan-related utilities from Unicopedia Plus.
- Added typeface selector between serif and sans-serif in the Pan-CJK Font Variants utility.
Planned:
- Utilities for non-Han scripts: Khitan Small Script, Nüshu, Tangut.
- Utilities for Jurchen, Small Seal (Unicode 18.0?)
New in Unicopedia Plus:
- All Unihan-related utilities have been moved to Unicopedia Sinica.
- All Unikemet-related utilities have been moved to Unicopedia Ægypta.
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-aegypta
![Screenshot of Unicopedia Plus app: log(😅) =💧log(😄) [Math Geekiness]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/515/779/327/041/625/original/a3e194873e53df94.png)
[Follow-Up]
Reference links:
- UTS #18: Unicode Regular Expressions
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/
- UTS #18: Unicode Regular Expressions [Proposed Update]
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/proposed.html
- Issues - tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus - Codeberg.org
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus/issues
The "official" Unicode Regular Expressions (UTS #18) document, dated February 8, 2022, has never been updated since then, and the four new Unicode properties introduced in Unicode 15.1 are only listed in the Proposed Update *draft*, dated May 11, 2023...
This could explain why #Safari, #Firefox, and the #Electron framework (#Chromium) trigger an "invalid property" error for the /\p{IDS_Unary_Operator}/u #regex in JavaScript, while /\p{IDS_Binary_Operator}/u is ok...
According to the "Can I Unicode‽" web page, as of today, the #Chrome navigator is still "stuck" in Unicode 15.1, while the latest version of #Unicode is 17.0!
https://mathiasbynens.github.io/caniunicode/
The fact that the #Electron framework is based on #Chromium probably explains why it is still lagging behind too...
Supporting Unicode 16.0 would allow me to produce a final stable version of my Unicopedia Plus app, before I can start working on a version for Unicode 17.0.
Until now, I've been able to provide a working (pre-release though) edition of my Unicopedia Plus app, targeting a specific #Unicode version not yet supported by the #Electron framework, by embedding a copy of all the up-to-date Unicode data files, and making use of the `regexpu-core` module to emulate the most "critical" regular expressions, but this is merely a workaround, not what it has been designed for in the first place...
As you might expect, my main application Unicopedia Plus relies heavily on #Unicode...
Today, I updated the #Electron framework to its latest major version 39.0.0, hoping it would at last bring full support to Unicode 16.0, published by the UTC in September 2024 , but unfortunately no; it is still stuck in Unicode 15.1, published in September 2023! Moreover, Unicode 17.0 has already been officially released...
New utility in Unicopedia Plus:
- Unihan Total Strokes
New in the CJK Variations utility of Unicopedia Sinica:
- Support for the latest Ideographic Variation Database (IVD 2025), adding the new CAAPH Collection.
- Support for the updated BabelStone Collection (unregistered), based on the latest BabelStone Han font (v17.0.0 BETA), by Andrew C. West (魏安), 1960-2025 RIP (安息吧).
🔗 https://https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica
#Unicopedia #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #IdeographicVariationDatabase #IVD #CAAPH #BabelStone
No Electron support for the latest Unicode version is a major hindrance for my open-source Unicopedia Plus application, which I have to keep in Beta version for a long time because of that...
New utilities in Unicopedia Ægypta:
- Hieroglyph Picture Book
- Hieroglyph Taxonomy
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-aegypta
#unicopedia #egyptian #hieroglyphs #taxonomy #picturebook #javascript #desktopapplication #electronjs #unicode
New utility in Unicopedia Anatolica:
- Hieroglyph Taxonomy
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-anatolica
#unicopedia #anatolian #hieroglyphs #taxonomy #javascript #desktopapplication #electronjs
Unicopedia Anatolica is a developer-oriented set of #Unicode utilities related to Anatolian hieroglyphs, wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.
Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-anatolica
#anatolian #hieroglyphs #unicopedia #javascript #unicode #characters #codepoints #codecharts #desktopapplication #electronjs #glyphs #localfonts
New utility in Unicopedia Sinica:
- Pan-CJK Font Variants
(port from Unicopedia Plus, with Serif/明朝体 font style instead of Sans-Serif/ゴシック体)
New utility in Unicopedia Plus:
- Unihan Phonetics
In the open-source application `Unicopedia Sinica`, both data files used for the `CJK Components` and the `CJK Related` utilities are now in a consistent JSON format with MIT license: `cjk-ids.json` and `cjk-related.json` respectively.
New utility in Unicopedia Sinica v11.0.0:
- CJK Strokes
